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Certification Process

The Top Employers certification is only awarded to organisations that achieve the highest standards of excellence in employee conditions. The first step in the certification process is a company’s participation in the HR Best Practices Survey: a comprehensive analysis of the Human Resources environment.

Upon certification

Once certified as a Top Employer, qualifying organisations can profile their exclusive status for one year. This enhances their employer brand and announces to existing employees, potential employees and other stakeholders that the organisation is excelling at providing an enriching experience for its employees and, in doing so, is part of an elite group of international businesses.

Why join

Only the world’s leading employers are certified as Top Employers. This exclusive recognition demonstrates that an organisation is a trusted employer of choice – especially beneficial for all stakeholders and its present and prospective employees. Becoming certified provides companies with the opportunity to celebrate this achievement and to reinforce the positive role of the HR environment in the business.

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Leadership Development

Leadership Development is any activity that improves or strengthens the quality of leadership within an individual or an organisation. The Leadership Development Report with six Key Trends and two cases from international Top Employers is out now. Order the full report or download a summary.

Performance Management

Performance Management is a process that contributes to the effective management of individuals and teams in order to achieve high levels of organisational performance. The report on effective Performance Management is out now. Order the full report or download a preview.

Career & Succession Management

This report describes the Key Trends of Career & Succession Management; the active and purposeful management of a career by an individual and identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key business positions in the company. The report is out now.

Compensation & Benefits

This report describes the Key Trends of Compensation & Benefits; Compensation & Benefits is an area of HR that is responsible for ensuring that the company has relevant, sustainable and competitive pay and benefits packages that attract, retain and motivate key talent.The report is out now.

Latest Blog Posts

Multiple studies already provide strong evidence that HRCI certified individuals are more successful in their careers compared to non-certified employees. They tend to get promoted more quickly, see quicker and greater salary increases, and populate more senior positions. Now data analysis suggests that having HRCI certified professionals on staff is correlated to stronger business performance. Companies with more than five HR professionals certified by HRCI are – like the Top Employers certified companies – not only more highly rated by current employees, they also are more likely to show stronger stock performance and revenue growth rates.

References

Enrique Puig,IKEA Ibérica

“Working with the Top Employers Institute allows us to get a market reference and benchmark on best practices and new practices as well as inspiration from inside and outside our own business field. If we say that we care for people, we’d better do.”